Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the University of Porto's Business School in Porto, Portugal, have embarked on a new double-degree graduate program in engineering and business this semester. A special event celebrating the program launch was held Oct. 23 in Portugal at Porto Business School. CMU's Ed Schlesinger and James Hoe joined Nuno de Sousa Pereira, dean of the Porto Business School, Jorge Farinha, vice dean of the Porto Business school, along with Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo director of the faculty of engineering of the University of Porto, Carlos Oliveira, Portugal's secretary of state for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Allan Katz, U.S. ambassador to Portugal, at a program that included a panel discussion about "Technology,…

Milos Popovic, assistant professor of electrical, computer and energy engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been awarded the prestigious Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. Popovic is one of 16 scientific researchers from universities across the country to receive this year’s fellowship, announced by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this week. Each of the fellows will receive an unrestricted research grant of $875,000 over five years. Popovic will investigate light-based devices for future microchip technology where light particles -- photons -- squeezed into nanometer-scale dimensions in silicon nanowires on chips give rise to unique physics. His research may enable ultra-low energy, “smart” self-adaptive circuits, and technology for communication and computation using quantum mechanics. “The campus is delighted…